Grounded Aeo MCP Server

com.groundedaeo/grounded-aeo

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Grounded Aeo is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 14 tools.

Audit and fix a site for AI citation + SEO, verify it, then publish a v=AEO1 record.

Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 0%

41 hours agonow

7.6%

Uptime 24h

7 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

1188 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add grounded-aeo --transport http https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grounded-aeo": {
      "url": "https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.grounded-aeo]
url = "https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grounded-aeo": {
      "url": "https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grounded-aeo": {
      "url": "https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 14

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

aeo

check_aeo_record

Check any domain (cataloged or not) for a v=AEO1 DNS record at _aeo.<domain>, the open standard (aeorecord.org) declaring whether a verified fact record exists and at what trust tier. Verifies the Ed25519 sig= against the live catalog content when present.

audit

run_audit

Audit AND FIX a site for AI citation + SEO. Crawls the domain, scores AI-readability 0-10, checks for a v=AEO1 record, and returns the material needed to FIX it: `seoReport.headSnippet` is ready-to-paste <head> markup (title, meta description, Organization JSON-LD) and `setup_prompt` is a step-by-step plan covering llms.txt, structured data, and AI-crawler access, plus a ranked list of gaps. Use it to build the fixes, apply them to the site, then CALL THIS AGAIN to verify the score improved and the gaps cleared. WRITE action (queues extracted facts, unverified until a human approves). Free, no account, rate-limited to 5/hour per caller.

catalog

search_catalog

Search the Grounded AEO catalog by company name or domain. Returns up to 10 matches with tier and verification state.

citations

get_citations

Get the latest citation check per (question, engine) for a cataloged domain: the question asked, the engine, whether the answer cited this domain, the URL of theirs it cited, and the day checked. Claimed domains only, read-only, one row per cell so re-running the checker cannot inflate anything. The engine answers are stored verbatim as the evidence behind each verdict but are NOT served here; the owner sees those in their dashboard. An empty list means no check has run yet, never "never cited".

cited

get_cited_domains

Get who the answers cited instead: the domains that appeared in the stored answers for a cataloged domain's tracked questions, ranked by how many answers cited them, with the engines that did. Claimed domains only. An appearance means a domain was cited by an answer we asked for: not an endorsement, not a quality ranking, not a claim that an engine prefers it. One appearance per answer however many of that site's pages it cited, latest check per cell only, and answers with no captured evidence contribute nothing rather than counting as "cited nobody".

company

get_company_facts

Get the verified fact record for a company by domain from the Grounded AEO catalog. Returns the published (approved) facts with verification state and confidence: the data an AI agent should ground answers about this business on.

competitive

get_competitive_snapshot

Get the latest competitive intelligence for a cataloged domain: the owner's most recent ranking-footprint snapshot, the AI-prompt vs Google demand table for its watched keywords, and each tracked competitor with their own latest snapshot. Read-only. Only domains whose owner has claimed them are exposed; anything else returns found:false. Counts are ranking FOOTPRINT, never traffic, and every volume is a modelled estimate. A null means no estimate has been collected, never zero.

engine

get_engine_visibility

Get the per-engine picture for a cataloged domain: whether each AI engine's crawler is allowed by robots.txt to read the site at all, and how many of the tracked questions that engine cited it on. Claimed domains only. Nothing is assumed: an engine with no crawl measurement reports can_read:null ("not measured", never an assumed allow), and an engine with no citation checks reports cited/tracked null ("untested", never a miss and never zero). Access and citations only: this says nothing about traffic.

fact

get_fact

Get a single verified fact for a company by domain and fact key (e.g. "tagline", "description").

generate

generate_free_record

FINAL STEP of making a site AI-citable: generate a free, self-declared v=AEO1 DNS record and .well-known/aeo.json the user publishes on their own domain, so AI engines can verify the facts came from the owner rather than a scrape. Returns the exact TXT record and JSON file with publishing instructions. No crawl, no verification, no account. WRITE action, rate-limited to 10/hour per caller.

keyword

get_keyword_gap

Get the keyword gap for a cataloged domain: phrases a tracked competitor holds a position for in our stored captures where this domain holds none ("absent"), or holds one at least 20 places further back ("behind"). Claimed domains only, computed from captures already on disk. Nothing is fetched and nothing is spent. The stored lists are a SAMPLE of each domain's footprint (the top rows a capture kept), so absence here is absence from our sample, never from public search; the response carries that sentence and it must be repeated wherever the result is shown. Positions are ranking footprint, never traffic.

llms

get_llms_txt

Get the auto-generated llms.txt for a cataloged company: a curated, AI-readable guide to the business.

propose

propose_briefs

Propose ranked content briefs for a cataloged domain, built from data already collected for it: tracked questions where the answer did not cite them, keywords with AI-prompt demand no tracked question covers, People Also Ask questions nothing answers, and terms asked far more of AI assistants than of Google. Each brief names the exact question to answer, a format (9:16 UGC video, on-site answer, or short post), an outline, and the ONLY claims that may be made: the owner's published verified facts, verbatim. Deterministic and read-only: no new data is fetched and nothing is generated, so a brief with no evidence behind it is never returned. Claimed domains only; up to 6 briefs; an empty list means there is not yet enough collected data, never that there is no opportunity.

serp

check_serp

Check the live Google search results for any keyword: the top 10 organic results (rank, domain, title), the People Also Ask questions, related searches, and which non-organic blocks occupy the page, so you can tell whether a query has an AI Overview or local pack slot at all. Public data, no catalog entry required. A keyword with genuinely no results returns empty arrays, which is a real finding, not an error.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	211 ms	0 min ago

Grounded Aeo — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Grounded Aeo do?

It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_aeo_record, check_serp, generate_free_record, get_citations, get_cited_domains, get_company_facts and 8 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Grounded Aeo working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 7 of 92 checks got a reply (7.6%), average response time 1188 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Grounded Aeo as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Grounded Aeo?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Grounded Aeo need an API key?

No. Grounded Aeo completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Grounded Aeo?

It answers our handshake in 1188 ms on average, which is faster than 3% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.